What are you getting America for our anniversary?

We’re coming up on March 15. Four years ago on that date, America experienced a major and unprecedented event: Our government imprisoned us. ALL of us. The word “lockdown” previously referred to the policy in prisons of confining inmates to their cells when prison authorities feared the inmates were getting rebellious over some (additional) perceived … Continue reading What are you getting America for our anniversary?

A movie about a novel about a movie about a movie

…that’s Argylle. I really didn’t wanna see it, thought it was just, like, a Diehard wannabe. But we did go yesterday, because we needed a rainy day entertainment to replace our usual clay pigeon shooting. And I thought it was great! First of all I ❤️ Sam Rockwell, whom I first saw in Jojo Rabbit. … Continue reading A movie about a novel about a movie about a movie

Spoiler alert! “Lisa Frankenstein” review:

if you’re a regulation grownup, you probably haven’t even heard of this movie, or if you have you didn’t consider seeing it. A teen horror flick, right? Turn of the Screw meets Pretty in Pink, or sump’n. But if you’re at all ll interested in the literary and cinematic tropes that have accreted around Mary … Continue reading Spoiler alert! “Lisa Frankenstein” review:

Epiphany: The Day After the Day Before

Does anybody else remember the 1980s? (I mean, were you compos mentis back then, not like, were you just getting outa diapers..) Here’s what I wanna remind you about: back then, our biggest fear, omnipresent, was nuclear annihilation.  And we had grown up with having to periodically get under our desks in grade school, one hand over … Continue reading Epiphany: The Day After the Day Before

Well, Pour Me a Martini and Call Me Dorothy Parker!

There was a bereavement this week reverberating through L1 and all of the legacy sites. And in the course of interacting online with the widow, I realized something: there are no (other) women posting on those sites. Dorothy Parker, as I’m sure you know, was a famous wit, critic and poet in the 1920s. One of … Continue reading Well, Pour Me a Martini and Call Me Dorothy Parker!